May you have a fun and successful day!

I plan to read all the games I buy, but my too-read pile is growing more quickly than I am moving them onto the now-read pile.

I’ve got some games that I bought several years ago that I’ve not managed to read yet.

Problem is, most of my spare time goes on _making_ games.

Excellent news.

This timelapse of the Artemis II splashdown from today is just so cool.

What a fantastic idea for a game, turning its attention onto a common but overlooked bit of fun in an adventure!

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I love the commitment to making this short video, plus it so accurately captures the difficulty of nudging a picture in Microsoft Word (which has delusions of layout but really… no)

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Looks like there's a stock art sale on DriveThru, for any publishing folks.

Sam Altman is the most dangerous man in Silicon Valley right now. The board that fired him? Replaced. The safety team that questioned his priorities? Dissolved. The nonprofit structure that was supposed to keep mission above profit? Restructured. The employees who wanted to speak out? Silenced.

Lack of competition plus I bet that it’s rare that people actually use master slides and styles (it’s been difficult enough to get people to use styles in word for 30 years!)

I wonder to what extent leadership is actually taught?

So frustrating. I sometimes saw this happen from ignorance, sometimes from fear of taking responsibility.

Low angle photo of bluebells

Lesser Celandine, a pretty yellow star shaped flower

Wood Anemone, seven white petals with a little cloud of yellow stamens in a halo around the centre.

Amidst the bluebells are some Yellow Archangels, in bright yellow clusters around their stalks.

Lovely walk in ancient woodland yesterday, with a sea of bluebells, dotted with the occasional lesser celandine, wood anemone, and yellow archangel!

I don’t think I could bear to eat things that looked so lovely!

A few years ago there was a push for greater operational resilience and they were curious why the architects said “and what about HR systems”. They said “what about HR systems?” and got the response, “how important is it to you that we are able to continue paying staff?”

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I used to be a source of institutional knowledge for a company - not just knowing what we did, but why we had decided to do it _that_ way.

When they threw out all the software architects at the company they lost a whole lot of ‘why’ information, sadly.

I keep trying to persuade my wife to stop using Spotify for podcasts and move to literally any other mechanism for podcasts.

I’ve got no idea if you even see replies on here, but if you do this cartoon is a really interesting example of the very thing you are addressing in that blog post

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Love this work by Skoda (and this video that explains it)

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I smile wryly to myself when I look back to teens and twenties me, at some of the times when a girl was obviously (now) flirting with me or interested and I just didn’t see it at all.

Brilliant to have a publishing partner who is good at putting the effort in!

Delighted to see how well you are doing!

A Robin perched on a branch, its beak full of food and other material.

To reduce disease, we all need to make some urgent but simple changes to how we feed our garden birds.

See our website for the latest guidance: brnw.ch/21x1t4w

This is the first part of an intriguing five part cartoon about how the maths of stacking cannonballs led to error correcting datatransmission today! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sphere...

This is going to be a very long thread for my industry chums sharing a method for assessing the relative merits of exhibiting at any given convention. It’s really long.

Let’s start somewhere away from the maths. There are a lot of intangible reasons to attend a convention as an exhibitor:

So many good uses—mine will stay with me for ever too

from now on 'mantasy' means fantasy worlds featuring manatees

Ballad Hunters RPG Britain, 1813: Folk ballads are coming to life. Armed with ballad magic, you decipher clues in each song and save the people affected.

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Had a wonderful time chatting with Logan on @thestorytold.bsky.social about Ballad Hunters, the Ennies, and roleplaying in history. Logan’s a great host—time just flew by.

Ballad Hunters RPG Britain, 1813: Folk ballads are coming to life. Armed with ballad magic, you decipher clues in each song and save the people affected.

I'm thrilled to have backed Ballad Hunters RPG by @moltensulfur.bsky.social now that they've added an all-digital tier. How cool is the idea of using a verse from a ballad as your superpower to solve mysteries?
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